The reason I want to do this is 100 pixels is wayyy to many for a reindeer and mini tree, these existing elements have 50 leds each (or around that) and that's literally the perfect amount.

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I'd do some more thinking about using dumb vs smart strip.

Talk2coxie uses a lot of dumb strip and modules in his show (one of my fav shows BTW) and his comment is if you want to control different sections of dumb you have to run a lot more cables. Each section has to go back to the controller. Personally for me the less cables the neater everything looks.

If you run it all in smart and pair it with say a j1sys P2 you can have 680 pixels with one data cable, power injection required of course.

Then you can break the sections up in the software. Really easy with elements in LSP to do this..

What this means is with things like a reindeer is you can do things like make one nose flash red or mini trees can spin or have fades or chases and it's all done in the software.

Talk2coxie uses a lot of dumb strip and modules in his show (one of my fav shows BTW) and his comment is if you want to control different sections of dumb you have to run a lot more cables. Each section has to go back to the controller. Personally for me the less cables the neater everything looks.

If you run it all in smart and pair it with say a j1sys P2 you can have 680 pixels with one data cable, power injection required of course.

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Thanks Michael. I definitely rethink going smart pixels in place of dumb pixels for a number of elements.

Doing the reindeer in smart pixels makes sense, these fellas (9 of) are pitched up on the roof and currently require 30M of cable to hook up. It's enticing to string them together with half as many cables & have infinitely more control over them.

A personal pref for me is a lot less cabling. When I built my existing control system I made it centralized - one place for everything. It works well but the issue is cabling, it got out of hand as the show grew... there is a lot lol. even with multi-core cable I still have hundreds of meters haha.